Sitting down to put this issue together, I had 45 items ready - the JavaScript world has gone into overdrive! I've curated them so you can make it through this issue before the next one ;-)

In other news, I'm co-chairing a new JavaScript-focused O'Reilly conference called 'Fluent.' The call for proposals just opened but closes again soon on January 31. Want to come and share your JavaScript expertise in SF in late May? - Peter.

Fluent is a new O'Reilly conference covering the JavaScript and ancillary technologies space - basically everything you'd expect to see in JavaScript Weekly and HTML5 Weekly. The call for proposals is now open but closes in just a couple of weeks. Tickets aren't on sale till late February, however.

JavaScript Needs Blocks—
Last year Brendan Eich put together a proposal for 'block lambdas' in ECMAScript (so eventually JS too). In this article, Yehuda Katz picks up on why he thinks JavaScript would be significantly improved by their inclusion.

An Interactive Version of 'Smooth CoffeeScript'—
Smooth CoffeeScript is an introductory CoffeeScript book by E. Hoigaard based around Marijn Haverbeke's Eloquent JavaScript. This single page version of the book is particularly interesting as all of the examples are interactive and allow you to adjust the code in real time.

Backbone Boilerplate: A Starter Kit for Backbone.js Apps—
Backbone Boilerplate is a set of best practices and utilities for building Backbone.js applications. You get Backbone, Underscore and jQuery with an HTML5 Boilerplate foundation, build tools, code snippets, and a lightweight Node.js Web server.

Dojo Boilerplate: A Starter Kit for Dojo Development—
Dojo Toolkit bills itself as 'the toolkit experienced developers turn to for building high quality desktop and mobile web applications' and the Dojo Boilerplate is a way to rapidly get up and running building Dojo apps.

js.js: A JavaScript Interpreter in JavaScript—
What happens when you convert Mozilla's SpiderMonkey into JavaScript using Emscripten? You get a JavaScript-based JavaScript interpreter. Very much a proof of concept and incredibly slow, but an interesting idea nonetheless.

A few days ago I lamented that I had too many links to go into JSW each week and Addy Osmani suggested I set up a Twitter account for a larger daily stream of links I find. So @JavaScriptDaily is an adjunct of JSW with far less detail but a faster flow of JS links.